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Re:16 TB and 20,000 IOPS EBS Volumes by AlfonsoP on Thursday March 19, 2015 @01:14PM (#9233311)
> most ppl will never need more than 100k IOPs, let alone 500k+

These types of statements are always false. If there is anything the computing industry has taught us is that people always need more resources. Always.

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Re:16 TB and 20,000 IOPS EBS Volumes by tgeek on Thursday March 19, 2015 @02:13PM (#9233627)
I sincerely hope you are joking here.
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Re:16 TB and 20,000 IOPS EBS Volumes by AlfonsoP on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @04:54PM (#9259417)
I sincerely hope YOU are joking, right?

I can think of many examples why even small businesses need more than 100k IOPS. Case in point: 5 years ago I did consulting work for an email marketing company that was generating a daily report on a database of about 1TB. The report took 10+ hours to generate due to the SQL queries aggregating data from joined tables in more or less random patterns. I upgraded their DB server from a 2-way RAID0 on 15kRPM HDD (about 500 IOPS) to a single SSD (20k IOPS), and it cut down report generation time to 15 minutes. 4 years later their database has continued growing and generation took 1 hour. They called me up again, I upgraded them to a 4-way SSD-based RAID5 (I benchmarked 250k IOPS) and again it cut down report generation to 6-8 minutes. This was a small company: a dozen marketers, 1 software guy.

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